Louth Cemetery on London Road (also known as London Road Cemetery) is the cemetery for Louth in Lincolnshire. [1] Opened in 1855, the cemetery's distinctive gate lodge and two cemetery chapels were designed by Lincoln architects Bellamy and Hardy. The gate lodge is a Grade II listed building on the register of Historic England. [2]
Louth Cemetery was established in 1854 by Louth Burial Board. The lodge house and two chapels were built in 1855 at a cost £2,700. Louth Cemetery originally covered about 10 acres. The Anglican chapel and half the burial ground was consecrated by John Jackson, the Bishop of Lincoln on 29 December 1855, while the remaining half of the cemetery and the second chapel were reserved for the use of nonconformists. [3] [4] [5] When the churchyard at the now-demolished Church of St Mary became full there was a need for a new burial ground for the town. The site for the new Louth Cemetery was chosen in 1854 after complaints from the townspeople about exposed and dismembered bodies being found at the old St Mary's burial site. This was highlighted in an article by William Brown in the Mercury newspaper in September 1843. [6] The cemetery was extended to the west by a further 10 acres in 1884, [2] and was again enlarged to the south in the 20th-century. [7]
The cemetery has two chapels, one for Church of England funeral services and another for Dissenters. Designed by Lincoln architects Bellamy and Hardy, the chapels and the gate lodge were built in 1855 in brick with 'cut-away' corners and tall bellcotes over the porches. [5] The two chapels and the gate lodge were completed for £2,700. [8] The gatehouse lodge is in brick and stone dressings. A gothic arched carriageway running below the building. Tudoresque with octagonal tower with battlements. The building is entered at carriageway level through a door set in the tower. The central portion has an oriel window with an inset panel towards the top of the front elevation with the inscription 'ERECTED A.D. 185-' (the final numeral is now missing). The gatehouse was sold by Louth Town Council in 2019 and has now been brought back into domestic use. [9] Today one of the chapels is used by the local Eastern Orthodox Church community as St Æthelhard's Church, [10] Æthelhard having been abbot of a monastery at Louth before being named to the diocese of Winchester. [11] The other is now used for storage for the equipment necessary to maintain the grounds of the cemetery and as a base for the groundsmen.
Entry to the cemetery is thorough the Gothic-style gate lodge completed in 1855 to a design by the Louth-born architect Pearson Bellamy of the architect firm Bellamy and Hardy. The lodge is constructed with red brick with ashlar stone dressings and a slate roof. It has been a Grade II listed building on the register of Historic England since 2020 owing to its largely unaltered original condition. [2]
There have been over 29,000 burials at the Cemetery since it first opened in 1855. [1] The cemetery has 14 burials from World War I and 20 from World War II with their distinctive Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) headstones. [12]
The cemetery has a granite obelisk dedicated to victims of the Louth Flood of 1920 when a severe flash flood hit Louth on 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain and Ireland during the 20th century. [13]
Louth is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor attractions include St James' Church, Hubbard's Hills, the market, many independent retailers, and Lincolnshire's last remaining cattle market.
Anfield Cemetery, or the City of Liverpool Cemetery, is located in Anfield, a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It lies to the northeast of Stanley Park, and is bounded by Walton Lane to the west, Priory Road to the south, a railway line to the north, and the gardens of houses on Ince Avenue to the east. The cemetery grounds are included in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens at Grade II*.
The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England opened in 1836 and closed for burial in 1978. It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a listed Landscape on the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by the City of Sheffield and managed on behalf of the city by a local community group, the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.
Æthelhard was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in southern England, and was deposed around 796 by King Eadberht III Præn of Kent. By 803, Æthelhard, along with the Mercian King Coenwulf, had secured the demotion of the rival archbishopric, once more making Canterbury the only archbishopric south of the Humber in Britain. Æthelhard died in 805, and was considered a saint until his cult was suppressed after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
York Cemetery is a cemetery located in the city of York, England. Founded in 1837, it now encompasses 24 acres and is owned and administered by The York Cemetery Trust with support of the Friends of York Cemetery. It is situated on Cemetery Road in the Fishergate area of York. It has approximately 28,000 graves and over 17,000 monuments, six of which are Grade II-listed. The chapel is a Grade II* listed building, while the gatehouse, gate and railings are Grade II. The architect of these buildings and the grounds was James Pigott Pritchett.
Warstone Lane Cemetery,, also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery, is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England. It is one of two cemeteries in the city's Jewellery Quarter, in Hockley. It is no longer open to new burials.
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St Woolos Cemetery is the main cemetery in the city of Newport, Wales situated one mile to the west of the Church in Wales cathedral known by the same name. It contains four chapels, and various ornate memorials dating back to the early Victorian period, and was the first municipally constructed cemetery in England and Wales. It remains in use to this present day as the main cemetery for burials in Newport, and has been used as a filming location for the BBC series, Doctor Who. The cemetery is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
James Fowler, known as 'Fowler of Louth', is best known as a Victorian English church architect and associated with the restoration and renovation of churches. However, he was also the architect of a wide variety of other buildings. A listing of his work compiled in 1991 traced over 210 buildings that he designed or restored. He is known to be the architect for 24 new churches and his work also included 40 vicarages or rectories, 13 schools, four almshouses, a Savings Bank, a convalescent home and hospital as well as country houses and estate housing. Most of Fowler’s work was in Lincolnshire and particularly around Louth, but he also worked in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, London, Sussex and Devon.
William Adams Nicholson (1803–1853) was an English architect who worked in Lincoln and was a founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Charles Bell FRIBA (1846–99) was a British architect who designed buildings in the United Kingdom, including over 60 Wesleyan Methodist chapels.
Boston Cemetery is a cemetery located in Boston, Lincolnshire in England. The cemetery dates back to 1855 and was laid out by Darlington architect James Pigott Pritchett junior.
William Watkins (1834–1926) was an architect who worked in Lincoln, England, and is particularly noted for his Terracotta Revival Architecture.
Michael Drury was an English architect working in Lincoln.
Bellamy and Hardy was an architectural practice in Lincoln, England, that specialised particularly in the design of public buildings and non-conformist chapels. Pearson Bellamy had established his own architectural practice by 1845 and he entered into a partnership with James Spence Hardy in June 1853. Both partners had previously worked for the Lincoln architect William Adams Nicholson. Hardy was described as "Chief Clerk" to Nicholson. Hardy joined Pearson Bellamy immediately after the sudden death of Nicholson. As all known architectural drawings by the practice are signed Pearson Bellamy, it is likely that Bellamy was the architect and Hardy was the administrator in the practice. The partnership lasted until 1887 After this Bellamy continued to practice until 1896.
Earlham Road Cemetery, Norwich also known as Earlham Cemetery or Norwich Cemetery is a cemetery located in Norwich which was officially opened on 6 March 1856 and covers 34 acres (14 ha). The cemetery is divided into two distinct sites by Farrow Road A140 which runs north–south across the site. To the east of the road is the original 19th century cemetery and to the west of the road lies the 20th century addition. Today, it caters for all faiths with separate burial grounds and chapels for Jews and Catholics and a growing one for Muslims together with two military cemeteries. The 19th century cemetery is designed with an informal garden cemetery layout with winding paths while the remainder is a more formal grid type which was favoured by cemetery designer John Claudius Loudon. Much of the original cemetery is a County Wildlife Site and contains grassland and a wide selection of mature trees.
Nottingham General Cemetery is a place of burial in Nottingham, England which is Grade II listed.
Nottingham Road Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Chaddesden, an inner suburb of Derby, in central England. It was established in 1855 to provide more more burial capacity for the rapidly growing town.
